Question

A farmer sees 56 of his cows out of the barn. He knows that he has 83 cows altogether. Let c represent the number of cows still in the barn. Could c = 33?

Answer 1

For this question you want to take 83 and subtract 56 which would give you 27. So 33 couldn't be the number of cows still in the barn.

Answer 2

For this question, we subtract the number of cows out of the barn from the number of cows altogether. 

83 - 56 = 27

If C represents the number of cows in the barn, then C = 27.

I hope that helps!